STAND. COM. REP. NO.  925

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 853

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 853, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that a violation of the prevailing wage law arises with each separate project in which the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) finds that a contractor has failed to comply with the law.

     The Hawaii State AFL-CIO, International Union of Elevator Constructors Local 126, Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council AFL-CIO, and Plumbers and Fitters Union Local 675 testified in support of this bill.  DLIR opposed this measure.  The Laborers' Union Local 368 offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2007; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 853, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 853, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair